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Silicon tracking detectors provide excellent spatial resolution, and so can provide excellent momentum resolution for energetic charged particles, even in compact detectors. However, at lower momenta, multiple scattering in the silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Spencer R. Klein

A four-gap glass RPC with 0.3mm gap size was tested with hadron beam as a time-of-flight detector having a time resolution of ~ 100ps. A thickness of the detector together with front-end electronics is ~ 12mm. Results on time resolution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Ammosov , V. Gapienko , A. Semak , V. Senko , Yu. Sviridov , V. Zaets , E. Usenko

The upgrade of the ATLAS muon spectrometer for high-luminosity LHC requires new trigger and readout electronics for the various elements of the detector. We present the design of a time-to-digital converter (TDC) ASIC prototype for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Jinhong Wang , Yu Liang , Xiong Xiao , Qi An , John W. Chapman , Tiesheng Dai , Bing Zhou , Junjie Zhu , Lei Zhao

We have developed a sensor system based on an optical photon-counting imager with high timing resolution, aiming for highly time-variable astronomical phenomena. The detector is a monolithic Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode array customized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Takeshi Nakamori , Yuga Ouchi , Risa Ogihara , Toshio Terasawa , Yuhei Kato , Shinpei Shibata

Many scientific and astronomical instruments need precise time measurement with high resolution between two or more events which is very challenging since decades. Presently a fast response of high resolution 17.1ps Digital Event Timer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-25 Farhat Iqbal , Waheed Rathore , Khawar Iqbal , Glulam. Jaffer

This paper presents several new structures to pursue high-resolution (< 2 ps) time-to-digital converters (TDCs) in Xilinx 20 nm UltraScale field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The proposed TDCs combined the advantages of 1) our newly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Wujun Xie , Haochang Chen , David Day-Uei Li

Time of Flight methods have been rapidly developed and used in many experiments recently for determination of particle direction, identification of particles and energy resolutions. This paper describes a method of time-mark determination…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-19 Ali Yilmaz

TORCH is a large-area, high-precision time-of-flight (ToF) detector designed to provide charged-particle identification in the 2-20 GeV$/c$ momentum range. Prompt Cherenkov photons emitted by charged hadrons as they traverse a 10mm quartz…

TORCH is a time-of-flight detector, designed to provide charged pi/K particle identification up to a momentum of 10 GeV/c for a 10 m flight path. To achieve this level of performance, a time resolution of 15 ps per incident particle is…

Time-Of-Flight (TOF) is a noble technique that is used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging worldwide. The scintillator based imaging system that is being used around the world for TOF-PET is very expensive. Multi-gap Resistive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-02 Rajesh Ganai , Shaifali Mehta , Mehulkumar Shiroya , Mitali Mondal , Zubayer Ahammed , Subhasis Chattopadhyay

Time of flight of a minimum ionizing particle along a fixed base has been measured with a 100 ps accuracy by means of a Dielectric Resistive Plate Chamber (DRPC) with 4 x 0.3 mm gas gaps. DRPC timing characteristics have been studied with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Akindinov , V. Golovin , A. Martemiyanov , V. Petrov , V. Plotnikov , A. Smirnitsky , K. Voloshin

Measurement of the Time-of-Flight (TOF) of the 511 keV gammas brings an important reduction of statistical noise in the PET image, with higher precision time measurements producing clearer images. Scintillating crystals are used to convert…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-03 K. Doroud , Z. Liu , M. C. S. Williams

In the CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) experiment constructed at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (Fair) at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany, MRPC(Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber) is adopted to construct the large TOF…

The potential of photon detectors to achieve precise timing information is of increasing importance in many domains, PET and CT scanners in medical imaging and particle physics detectors, amongst others. The goal to increase by an order of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-11 S. Enoch , A. Gola , P. Lecoq , A. Rivetti

A time-of-flight system with a plastic scintillator coupled to photomultipliers is developed for the external target facility (ETF). This system can satisfy the requirement of an ultrahigh vacuum ($\sim 10^{-9}$ mbar), a high counting rate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-23 Zhang Xueheng , Yu Yuhong , Sun Zhiyu , Mao Ruishi , Wang Shitao , Zhou Yong , Yan Duo , Liu Longxiang

The TORCH time-of-flight detector will provide particle identification between 2-10 GeV/c momentum over a flight distance of 10 m, and is designed for large-area coverage, up to 30 m^2. A 15 ps time-of-flight resolution per incident…

Precise timekeeping is critical to metrology, forming the basis by which standards of time, length and fundamental constants are determined. Stable clocks are particularly valuable in spectroscopy as they define the ultimate frequency…

We developed a time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) system based on the low-jitter superconducting nanowire single-photon detection (SNSPD) technology. The causes of jitters in the TCSPC system were analyzed. Owing to the low…

The measurement of time durations or instants of ocurrence of events has been frequently modelled ``operationally'' by coupling the system of interest to a ``clock''. According to several of these models the operational approach is limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Alonso , R. Sala Mayato , J. G. Muga

A comparative measurement of timing properties of magnetic-resistant fine mesh R7761-70 and ordinary fast R2083 photomultipliers is presented together with preliminary results on the operation of R7761-70 PMs in magnetic field up to 1100…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-29 V. Kuznetsov , A. Ni , H. S. Dho , J. Jang , A. Kim , W. Kim